Out of Office

Aline Dahmen identified a huge need in the digital nomad community with the challenges travelers faced in building meaningful romantic connections on the road. She built a community online for like-minded individuals to interact and plan their international meet-ups. When she sought out a co-founder with experience developing mobile apps, the Nomad Soulmates brand was born. The app will launch globally on February 14, 2018, and tod...

Alyssa DiFolco had just graduated from university and while her classmates were gunning for internships, polishing their resumes, and trying to land spots in graduate programs - Alyssa took a less than conventional path South to Santiago, Chile.

When given the opportunity to be an Au Pair instead of taking a traditional office job, Alyssa knew she needed time to see the world and explore her passions. We totally nerd out talking mi...

Anna Sabino ditched her stressful job on Wall Street when a glass-blowing hobby turned into the launch of her now successful jewelry company, Lucid New York. Through the creation and management of a brand with 100 stores worldwide and features in magazines like People, Cosmopolitan and VOGUE, she learned the fast track to financial independence through an artistic and creative career.

Now Anna wants to help other aspiring entrepren...

Award-winning designer, blogger, and brand strategist Salma Sheriff grew up in a small town in Southern India where most women weren't encouraged to seek higher education or start their own businesses. But Salma did both. And it all started with a love for crochet and all things beautiful.

Today Salma runs a successful brand strategy and design business where she empowers other female entrepreneurs to build their own six-figure bus...

Samantha Kim was working as a successful lawyer prosecuting sexual predators and murderers at the District Attorney's office in San Francisco. One day she found herself stricken with grief due to the ultimate trifecta of her relationship, career and family life falling apart. Her partner left her. She had to watch a murderer in a double-homicide case walk free. And her younger brother suddenly passed away. The only thing she knew t...

Belinda Irvine, an entrepreneur and SEO expert, uprooted herself from her home and corporate job in Australia to live in new parts of the world as required by her husband's job. She quickly sought out a creative outlet or passion project and found that in an online forum and blog about dogs. 

While driving traffic to her blog and online forum, Belinda was able to apply her skills and knowledge from previous jobs with her own r...

Welcome to the Out of Office Podcast where I your host, Anna Grymes, bring together kick ass remote workers and location-independent entreprenuers building real online businesses that allow them to custom design their lives to work whenever and wherever they want.

On today's first episode, I'm sharing my own journey of building my location-independent business, ditching my corporate job, and traveling across the world. No desk. No ...